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Exploring chart options

Exploring chart options

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Exploring chart options

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- [Narrator] Picking the right chart for the data is a big subject. How do you pick the right chart for the data you have? You want to keep your audience interested. You might be worried about using quote-unquote boring charts. At the same time, there is a visual language and user experience reality you have to deal with. Your audience knows how to read and understand certain charts. Sometimes you want to give them something so easy even a dog can understand it, right? Not to mention that if you have complex data, and whose data isn't more complex than you might think at first, then you often need to find new and unique ways to display that data. First thing's first, bar charts work really well. If your data works in a bar chart, use a bar chart. Humans can pre-attentively process and compare those rectangles very well. Remember we talked about pre-attentive processing, that immediate ability to recognize and make…

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